Due to my holidays, I write this post a bit later than usual. Welcome to the new subscribers! Every month I take one article in the domain of Cities of Things that trigger thinking about one aspect that is part of the Cities of Things elements of living together with intelligent things in cities that […]
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The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI-thing co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of living with agentic things in the city. A Day in the life: The Ginger Grid I wake to a soft ripple of brass and bike chains—the “Bitter Bridge” profile our neighborhood brewed into its IPA […]
The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI-thing co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of living with agentic things in the city. This month, we go inside the home. A Day with NutriSphere: The Ambient Kitchen 6:30 AM: Maya’s bedroom gradually brightens as her NutriSphere begins its morning routine. “Good morning, Maya,” comes […]
The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of living with agentic things in the city. Morning, with headlines Maya scrolls the morning headlines with her thumb, the screen casting a cool light across the kitchen table. War, elections, the price of olives. She pauses on […]
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Updates Q1 Cities of Things
Let me share some updates from the last quarter at Cities of Things. Newsletters We started a fresh format for the Monthly newsletter, applying speculative design techniques to build a story on the near future living with agentic things in the city. The recipe is: So you can read to stories: Wijkbot / Hoodbot Via […]
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2025: Cities of Agentic Things
In this first post of 2025, I want to set out a theme for the year; “Cities of Things, Cities of Agents; living with agentic things as fellow citizens.” This theme is a natural evolution from our focus on Things as Citizens, and it intertwines deeply with our ongoing exploration of Cities of Things. What […]
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New relations in generative things
On 4 June 2024, I gave a talk at an evening on “Designing Intelligent Cultures with Data and AI”, organized by design agency CLEVER°FRANKE from Utrecht (check also their recap). I decided to share my developing thoughts on the emergence of Generative Things, a new breed of things that we foresee happening in a certain […]
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April reflections and update
Following the method of last Month, I again asked the AI-intern (ChatGPT-4) to reflect on the different weekly thoughts at Target is New, through the lense of the Cities of Things Manifesto. I continued the conversation a bit with my own feelings about last Month, as an important moment with two long-expected AI-enhanced devices finding […]
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multilateral augmented intelligence
New AI-endeavours build communities of self-improving multilateral augmented intelligence, as flocks of multi-core AIs improve themselves in continuous self-reflection. (This post was sent as a newsletter on 31th July via Cities of Things Substack) Having AI as co-performers with humans has been the topic more than once, referring to the concept defined back in 2018. In the latest […]
With Cities of Things, we look at intelligent (behaviour of) things in our future cities. Robotics combined with an intelligence agency. Last week I attended a lecture by James Bridle, who wrote a book last year on other intelligence last year (Ways of Being), that I liked a lot. They showed how there is more […]